How to Compile and Install
Ghostscript 6.0 + Japanese vflib patch

The advantage of this installation is that it is quite fast and doesn't need any other fonts installed. However you have to recompile the ghostscript to understand Japanese vflib. For other installations see the bottom of this page.

1. Environment:

Solaris 2.6/7,8, X11R6.3, gcc-2.8.x or better
(Note that gcc-2.7.2 or earlier may not compile some versions of ghostscript!)

2. Source:

The following packages from the original ghostscript distribution are required:
(Get these from any CTAN ftp archive near you.)

ghostscript-6.0.tar.gz
ghostscript-6.0jpeg.tar.gz
ghostscript-6.0zlib.tar.gz
ghostscript-6.0libpng.tar.gz

And these additional patch and vflib packages:

gs-jpatch.gz or the latest version from here.
gs6.0-jpdf-exp.patch.gz or the latest version from here.
VFlib2-2.25.1.tar.gz (653K). Or get the latest version of VFlib library
(It was reported that the patches may not work with newer versions of VFlib. The tested and confirmed version is VFlib2-2.25.1)

3. Installation Scripts/Guide:

Compile and install vflib. Instructions may be found here.

Compile and install ghostscript:
Suppose that you want to have ghostscript binary and library files installed in
/usr/local/bin/gs6.0vflib
and
/usr/local/lib/gs/6.0vflib
respectively. The do the followings:

       % zcat ghostscript-6.0.tar.gz | tar xvf -
       % zcat ghostscript-6.0jpeg.tar.gz | tar xvf -
       % zcat ghostscript-6.0zlib.tar.gz | tar xvf -
       % zcat ghostscript-6.0libpng.tar.gz | tar xvf -
       % mv jpeg-6b gs6.0/jpeg
       % mv zlib-1.1.3 gs6.0/zlib
       % mv libpng-1.0.3 gs6.0/libpng
       % cd gs6.0
       % patch -p1 < SOME_PATH/gs-jpatch
       % patch -p1 < SOME_PATH/gs6.0-jpdf-exp.patch
       % cp src/unix-gcc.mak src/unix-gcc.mak.old

Then edit unix-gcc.mak file and change the following points in it:

--------------------------------------------------------
   bindir = $(exec_prefix)/bin/gs6.0vflib
   datadir = $(prefix)/lib
   gsdir = $(datadir)/gs
   GS_LIB_DEFAULT=$(gsdatadir)/lib:$(gsdir)/fonts:$(gsdatadir)/fonts
   EXTRALIBS= -lnsl -lsocket
   XINCLUDE=-I/usr/X11R6/include
   XLIBDIRS=-L/usr/X11R6/lib
   XLIBS=Xt SM ICE Xext X11
   VFLIBS=VFlib2 ttf
--------------------------------------------------------

Then do:

       % cd gs6.0
       % ln -s ./src/unixgcc.mak Makefile
       % make
       % make install

Then go to /usr/local/lib/gs/6.0vflib and extract the following files:

        ghostscript-fonts-std-6.0.tar.gz
        ghostscript-fonts-other-6.0.tar.gz

Now edit vfontcap with proper setting of the True Type fonts in it!! (see below)
Don't have Japanese True Type fonts? As a hint, you may get them from the Japanese version of Windows 3.1 or 95/98/NT (please notice the copyrights of the Microsoft Co. and use them at your own risk.). All you need is the following files:

msgothic.tti msmincho.tti

msgothic.ttc msmincho.ttc

Note that if you don't have tti files, you can easily generate them using ttindex utility that comes with VFlib source.
Suppose that you save these font files in /usr/local/lib/vflib/ttf/ directory. Then all you need is to add these lines to the vfontcap file.
```
###--------------------------
### TRUETYPE FONT (Windows fonts)
min|MicroSoft mincho:\
     :ft=truetype:\
     :ff=/usr/local/lib/vflib/ttf/msmincho:
goth|Microsoft gothic:\
     :ft=truetype:\
     :ff=/usr/local/lib/vflib/ttf/msgothic:
###--------------------------
```

4. Results:

/usr/local/bin/gs6.0vflib/
/usr/local/lib/gs/6.0vflib/

Notes:

Remember to edit the /usr/local/bin/gs6.0vflib/ps2pdfwr file and add the -sPAPERSIZE=a4 to it, if you want to use A4 papers instead of default letter size PDF files. Edit it like this:
exec gs $OPTIONS -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -sOutputFile=$outfile $OPTIONS -c save pop -f $infile
On a Solaris machine, remember to set the environment variable GS_LIB as follows: (using csh or tcsh)
setenv GS_LIB /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/Type1:/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/Type3
and then use the Fontmap.Sol instead of Fontmap.GS to get a better look of the PS files.
Remember to add /usr/local/bin/gs6.0vflib to your path before starting ghostscript.
You may need to edit the file PREFIX/lib/gs/6.0vflib/kanji/kconfig.ps and add new font aliases to it.
Get "ghostview" or "gv" and install it to have a fine user interface with ghostscript.

Other Notes on compiling and installing ghostscript:

Go to Japanese HTML & CGI Lecture page.

This page was created by B.H. Far.

far

enel.ucalgary.ca

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